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The powerful, open-source chess engine Stockfish narrowly beat out two strong commercial engines to win the first Chess.com Computer Chess Championship this week.

Stockfish placed clear first in the 10-engine round robin to reach the superfinal, and then edged the second-place Houdini in the rapid, blitz, and bullet finals to win the championship, which was shown on Chess.com's live server Nov. 13 through 16.

The Chess.com Computer Chess Championship was announced in September and featured the 10 strongest chess engines in the world. Three days of round-robin rapid play determined the top two engines, who faced off in a thrilling superfinal for the title.

All four days of the championship were covered live on Twitch.tv/chess and Chess.com/TV, with master commentary by IM Daniel Rensch and GM Robert Hess, making it the first computer tournament to be broadcast in real time with professional production and live announcers. Full video replays of all four days of coverage can be watched in the Twitch archives.

The aim of the tournament was to showcase the strength and beauty of computer chess in a viewer-friendly, rapid and blitz tournament so that the audience could follow along in real time.

That said, there was some serious computer science behind the event, as each engine played from a powerful Amazon Web Services computer. For more technical details on the engine and hardware configuration, see the announcement article.

One major facet of the tournament format was that there were no opening books, forcing each engine to independently make every one of its moves. The engines were strong enough to derive some serious opening theory on the fly, with most games following solid and established opening lines.

According to Norm Schmidt, Chess.com's technical advisor for the tournament, here is the breakdown of openings "chosen" by the engines and the results of the games.

Although the world's top 10 engines were slotted into the tournament, most of the attention was on the "big three" engines of Stockfish, Komodo, and Houdini, universally considered the three strongest engines of all time.

The three engines battled fiercely in the round robin, with Houdini needing a brilliant win in the last round to clinch its spot in the superfinal.

Round Robin Final Standings

Round Robin Crosstable

#

Name

Rtg

Perf

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

0

Pts

SB

1

Stockfish 051117

3400

3526

01

½½

½1

½1

11

11

11

11

½1

14.5/18

2

Houdini 6.02

3407

3444

10

½½

½½

1½

1½

11

1½

1½

11

13.0/18

3

Komodo 1959.00b

3398

3422

½½

½½

½1

½½

½1

½½

11

11

1½

12.5/18

4

Fire 6.2

3300

3389

½0

½½

½0

½½

1½

½1

1½

11

11

11.5/18

5

Andscacs 0.92

3240

3258

½0

0½

½½

½½

½½

½½

½½

½½

½½

8.0/18

6

Fizbo 1.9

3262

3237

00

0½

½0

0½

½½

½½

½½

11

½½

7.5/18

55.00

7

Deep Shredder 13

3291

3234

00

00

½½

½0

½½

½½

11

½½

½½

7.5/18

54.75

8

Chiron 4

3203

3159

00

0½

00

0½

½½

½½

00

½0

11

5.5/18

39.50

9

Booot 6.2

3224

3157

00

0½

00

00

½½

00

½½

½1

1½

5.5/18

37.00

10

Gull 3 syz

3191

3112

½0

00

0½

00

½½

½½

½½

00

0½

4.5/18

The dominant performances by Stockfish and Houdini in the rapid round robin led to a superb matchup in the superfinal, with its unique format of five time controls, counting down from rapid to blitz and finally to bullet chess.

The superfinal itself came down to the very last set of games, as Stockfish took a one-point lead into the set of four bullet games. Two of those four games were decisive, with Houdini and Stockfish each notching exciting wins, allowing Stockfish to take the title.

Superfinal Crosstable

#

Name

Rtg

Perf

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

1

Stockfish 051117

3400

3424

½

½

½

½

1

0

½

½

½

1

½

½

½

½

½

½

0

½

1

½

2

Houdini 6.02

3407

3383

½

½

½

½

0

1

½

½

½

0

½

½

½

½

½

½

1

½

0

½

The tournament featured $2,500 in prize money to further the development of computer chess.

1. Stockfish: $1,0002. Houdini: $7503. Komodo: $5004. Fire: $250

Norm Schmidt, the developer of Fire, also served as Chess.com's technical advisor for the Computer Chess Championship. Schmidt will not accept the $250 prize money, which will instead be donated to charity.

There were 110 total games played in the championship, 90 in the round-robin stage and 20 in the superfinal.

The full set of tournament games can be downloaded by clicking the button below.

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